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How about this for an official cat color?
Salmiak or ‘salty licorice’.
A rare new colour of cat known as ‘salty licorice’ has been discovered by researchers in Finland.
Cats with the unusual coat – known as ‘salmiak cats’ (which translates as ‘salty licorice’)– are black with flecks of white. Elsewhere on their bodies, salmiak cats wear a ‘tuxedo’ pattern: a solid white neck, chest, belly and paws.
The unusual pattern of the new coat is caused by the colour of each hair changing from root to tip – starting out black near the cats’ skin then fading to white. And, as scientists recently discovered, that’s a huge deal genetically.
Cats with the unusual coat – known as ‘salmiak cats’ (which translates as ‘salty licorice’)– are black with flecks of white. Elsewhere on their bodies, salmiak cats wear a ‘tuxedo’ pattern: a solid white neck, chest, belly and paws.
The unusual pattern of the new coat is caused by the colour of each hair changing from root to tip – starting out black near the cats’ skin then fading to white. And, as scientists recently discovered, that’s a huge deal genetically.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/salty-liquorice-cat
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And if kitty puts on 10 lbs, I could probably see it even more.
